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By Don. M. Winn

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Between the stone walls of Knox Castle lies many secrets—some even deadly. For Kaye, the boy knight, and his young friends, Reggie and Beau, the castle, along with the young Queen Vianne provides a new home and a promising future.

By Tim Whitney

By D.A. Clark

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The Federation, a dystopian city thriving in the aftermath of a Toxic Era, starts to unravel as teenage boys begin disappearing from the seemingly peaceful city. Taren Manning sets out to find his missing friend and finds himself kidnapped; kick starting an adventure that caroms into the city’s underworld and nearby Hinterlands.

By G. Elizabeth Kretchmer

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Although Beth was the minister’s wife, she wasn’t much of a believer, so when she died of cancer she wasn’t sure what the afterlife would entail. Instead of slipping into nothingness or a picturesque heaven, Beth ends up in limbo.

By Jessica Lourey

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Faith Falls, Minnesota, on the surface, is like many of the towns in the upper mid-West. The seasons flow from the frost of winter to the sultry summer nights with fireflies dancing in the air. Every twenty-five years, however, the town is overrun by garter snakes as the spring thaw arrives. As if this were not enough, the Catalain women have lived in the town for generations.

By L.G. O'Connor

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The second book in the Angelorum Twelve Chronicles, THE WANDERER’S CHILDREN follows the pulse-pounding and frequently erotic travails of a group of humans with mystical bloodlines who are “called” to serve their communities.

By Veronica Scott

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A galaxy away, a princess blinded as a child must make what seems like a sad, but safe trip across her planet to meet the man she is meant to marry. Luckily, or perhaps by the hand of fate, her path crosses that of an intergalactic Special Forces soldier whose companionship she not only wants, but needs.

By Bob Oedy

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As unlikely as it sounds, every Memorial Day weekend a crowd of punk rockers arrives in Las Vegas for a long weekend of music, partying and bowling. Yes, bowling. The centerpiece of this gathering is a bowling tournament with teams, prizes and a distinctly punk attitude.

By Joey Rawlings

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A young teenager discovers magical talents and a world he’s never known about – but is immediately thrown into the dangerous remnants of a bitter and painful war, and must decide who he can trust amidst lies, betrayals, and hidden identities.

By David Sage

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ADZUL: THE HEIRS OF THE MEDALLION begins some five centuries ago when the Conquistadores destroyed the village of Pattiti in the Peruvian Andes. Adzul, the only survivor, was a young Incan warrior who inherited a strange medallion from his grandfather.

By C. Edward Baldwin

By Joel Ohman

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After an apocalyptic Event, 50,000 people huddle behind the walls of Meritropolis under a harsh Score System that determines everyone’s value to society. After his family and countless innocents are zeroed out, Charley sets out to bring down the System.

By Elle Davis

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Ronan Callaghan and Cat McCullough have for a unique love for one another. They have similar backgrounds and are both quite independent in their behavior. The major difference between them is that Ronan is a Designer person, someone whose DNA was manipulated in utero to give him a superior intellect, almost athletic ability and formidable strength. Cat does not have these abilities but her 9-year-old sister, Claire, does.

By James Mahoney and Marie-Paule Mahoney

By Philippe de Vosjoli

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On December 17th, 2032 at precisely 9:27 AM, every monitor across the world carried the same brief message: “I Am, Aaa one”. THE CYBERBARDOS deals with the reaction of governments and organized religion as they try to rein in the effects of the message on society and in some way coopt the message entirely.

By Angela N. Blount

By Ryan Shimek

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In a hostile world of angry gods and murderous beasts, the city of Valour is an oasis. Its citizens are safe from harm, protected by a shield of light emanating from four towers. The safety comes at a price, however, since a newborn child is needed to maintain this force field of light.

By Tami Liberati

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In this gentle tale about regaining life after loss, first grade teacher Ruth Lily has repressed all memories from before the passing of her husband, Roger. After meeting the mysterious “First Creatures” that live in her garden, however, she slowly begins to regain her memories – and to heal.

By Kashonia Carnegie PhD

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BRAINWASHED: A TRUE STORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is a one of a kind book meant to help readers to understand the mental and emotional thinking that causes people to stay in abusive relationships.

By Christianne Sanchez

By David Wahlberg

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Venice Beach is a three square mile piece of Los Angeles that is home to the terminally hip. Ty Malone is an entrepreneur whose business interests tie him closely to the community and its population of street entertainers, ageing bohemians and grifters. A brutal murder on the beach catches his attention.

By Marybeth Zeman

By Zachary J. Kitchen

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After losing part of his leg during a mission in Iraq, U.S. Marine, Major Max Bradley decides to hole up in a house boat and honorably painkiller away his remaining days. At least until he rescues a woman named Elena from two attackers. She reveals that she’s not only running from the undead: she, too, is a vampire.

By Richard Uhlig, Jr.

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Seventeen year-old Ron Riley, Jr., better known as Kodak, is a reporter and photographer for The Harker City Bugle. Kodak wants to document real stories. Stories that matter, question, change the world.
This makes Kodak dangerous in Harker City.

By Thomasin Heyworth

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Ben Willows has always been reserved, and after his wife June passes away, he sees no need to change. But kindhearted June had other plans: before falling ill she made a young pregnant girl named Rose Swann promise that she would introduce herself to Ben.

By Jesse Arnold

By Scott M. Sullivan

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It is ten years since The Impact, the day when meteors struck the earth. The city of Boston has become a dark, dust driven scape with a small fraction of its population alive and living the semi feral life of scavenging tribes.

By Tamara Linse

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Building off the exceptional promise of her short-story collection How to Be a Man, author Tamara Linse returns with a novel about three orphaned siblings in Loveland, Colorado and their struggles to find love, meaning, and the strength to care for each other.

By Naomi Kenocek

By Samuel Finlay

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Tom Walton is a 25 year old team leader at the US Army base in Ft. Drum, New York. He has already been to Bosnia to police the peace-keeping process and soon receives orders to go to Afghanistan to do “real infantry stuff”. Eventually months of combat and the accompanying PTSD stand between them as Tom finally faces his own demons.

By Yves Fey

By Vijay Lakshman

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In a land where magic-users have only recently been freed from persecution, the opening of a mysterious Gate in a beseiged fortress sets off a train of events that bring a diverse cast of characters into conflict over the source of magic itself.

By Ryan Scoville

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Thirty years ago three young children are kidnapped; three young children are saved by a mistake on the kidnapper’s part and the bravery of one of the young victims. Now three more children have been kidnapped, and it looks like a writer’s assertion of two kidnappers in the original case might, in fact, be true. When the kidnapper mails severed toes to the police, the authorities must locate the children before they lose something worse: their lives.

By Laurel McHargue

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Based on actual events, “MISS?” is a whirlwind of a read as readers explore the failings of our educational system through the eyes of a first-time teacher as she struggles to impact her students lives in a meaningful way while dealing with the reality that her school may be closing in the not-to-distant future.

By K. Huber

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Tally is a normal young adult, living a normal life. She has a day job as a tarot card reader, tapping into her natural, intuitive abilities. Her quiet, unassuming life takes a drastic turn when she’s bowled over, literally, by an errant dust storm that marks her as an Air Singer.

By Jeff Gunhus

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Arnie Milhouse found the power. As an abused husband and submissive person, he walks into a convenience store during a robbery. Fearing for his life, he kills the robber and, reveling in his newfound power, he kills the clerk. This begins a thirteen year spree with mutilated bodies left in his wake.

By J.A. Carter Winward

By David D. Williams

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When an explosion at a synthetic fertilizer manufacturing plant kills five workers, the cause is clear. What follows is the story of how the truth can easily be manipulated and distorted by an unethical lawyer who is more interested in making himself even wealthier than he is in uncovering the truth.

By Robert Sholly

By Martin Kee

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BLOOM relates the respective stories of Tennyson Middlebrook and his best friend, Allison, young children living in a world that is on the brink of collapse thanks to a parasitic fungus called “bloom” and that of Lil’it, a feh considered less than human who is passed around like an abused puppy bought on a whim.

By Diane Burnside Murdock

By Lori Ryan

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Laura Kensington is on the run. Her abusive husband, heir to the Kensington fortune, died mysteriously, ending their abusive marriage. Laura, however, is pregnant. Her mother-in-law, Martha Kensington, is ready to use all of the resources available to her family to take the child and raise it themselves.

By Chris Culver

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Steven Hale is a seemingly fairly average guy. He’s a writer of mystery novels, and he lives with his wife Katherine and their niece and soon-to-be adoptive daughter, Ashley. But there’s one thing about him that’s quite extraordinary: nine years ago, he framed a guy for murder.

By Amy Billone

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Amy Billone’s poetry collection THE LIGHT CHANGES is a four-part cycle, starting with a suicide attempt and ending with the birth of a child, but they almost always come back to her relationship with her father, which serves as the emotional heart of the book.

By Colleen Houck

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In a far away land, a young girl named Yesubai is raised under the control of her father. He is a man great magical abilities, a violent temper and an insatiable hunger for power that make him a dangerous man. But unbeknownst to him, Yesubai, has powers of her own.

By Bentz Deyo

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The year leading up to Leam’s eighteenth birthday has been disastrous. He failed to Delighten on his seventeenth birthday, which means he also failed to take his place amongst the magical Dark that is his birthright.

By Jodie Renner

By Michael King

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FAITH AS A SUBSTANCE is the story of James Little and his spiritual journey from his grade school years to his young adulthood. His Christian values are tested from the schoolyard through his teen years until he makes a firm commitment to live his faith, placing his life in Divine hands.

By James McAllen

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The 20 original short stories contained in SPLIT ROCK ROAD are a diverse look at humanity. The stories themselves cover a range of circumstances and situations. Ranging from flash fiction to short story length, the recurring themes such as love and loss and human frailties —are threaded throughout as a consistent unifier.

By Larry Buhl

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THE GENIUS OF LITTLE THINGS is a moving yet humorous story of a lovable, emotionally stunted, 16 year-old, science geek caught in the Foster-Go-Round system AKA Nevada Department of Child and Family Services.

By David McDonnell

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David K. McDonnell’s book is a history of his own family intertwined with the history of Ireland. It is a balanced, well-researched history beginning with the hunter-gatherers of the Stone Age up to present times.

By Keith Soares

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In this sequel to The Oasis Of Filth, THE HOPELESS PASTURES begins quite innocuously with a man alone in a lake house, farming for his basic needs. But then the full impact of the disease RL2013 hits the placid scene, complete with zombie attacks and suspicious trespassers.

By M.F. Thomas and Nicholas Thurkettle

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Alex Pyke is a successful used-car salesman, whose career and social ambitions appear to be coming to fruition. But when he goes back to Germany, the land of his birth, what he thought was a simple deal to import a couple of cars turns into an adventure that will change his life.

By James Snyder

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When Oreny “Big” Johnson is told he has less than eight months to live, he is super motivated. . . . to break out of prison as soon as possible. After all, the only fate worse than a cancerous death is a cancerous death behind bars.

By James Houston Turner

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NOVEMBER ECHO takes place as the main tensions of the Cold War are winding down in 1985, but suspicions about biological warfare pervade the covert community. In the trenches of the Russian spy organization, a battle of wills is waged between the brass and rogue, but highly effective Colonel Talanov (based on an actual KGB agent) in the latest in the Aleksandr Talanov series.

By Nancy Myers & Diane Seay

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When Lazlo True moves in next door, Dusty Shine can’t wait to meet and befriend him. But introductions are a little awkward when Dusty sees Lazlo has the most unusual blue ears. Dusty and Lazlo become fast friends, inseparable, but not all Dusty’s friends are as welcoming and accepting. Not everyone wants to play with the blue-eared boy.

By R. Scott Boyer

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BOBBY ETHER AND THE ACADEMY reels you in from the first line: It would take a miracle to win the game. And, lo and behold, fourteen-year-old Bobby somehow, miraculously, makes the last-second shot to defeat his basketball team’s middle-school rivals.

By Kevin McCormick

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Rogue policeman Benjamin Weizmann and his former quarry, Atusa Navarro, now hunted criminals flee together from the law in this sequel that reveals a galaxy being ripped apart by catastrophic violence, with ordinary and not-so-ordinary people caught in the middle.

By Michael Hurley

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Aidan Sharpe, one of the finest lawyers in Raleigh, finds himself an outcast after a serious ethical breach. His long fall from grace brings him to Ocracoke Island, His journey is touched by the words of a mysterious gypsy woman and the appearance of a derelict ship that point him toward his destiny.

By Niki Tulk

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Lara is a young girl who lives with her mother, her Oma and her Opa on a farm in Australia. Oma and Opa are both immigrants from Germany, and both are kind, loving supports to Lara and her younger sister Jen as they grow to womanhood. But Opa has a shadowy past that no one wants to talk about, and after his death, Lara finds out one reason for the silence.

By Gerry O'Sullivan

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Michael Gallagher lost both his father and his sweetheart, in the Irish Troubles. He joins the Shanghai Municipal Police in an attempt to make a name for himself. But when one of Shanghai’s most dangerous and prosperous men decides to hire him for a detective job,and he discovers his first love is alive, the upheaval in his own life begins to mirror the political upheaval around him.

By Jonathan Maas

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Jonathan Maas’ CITY OF GODS envisions a world divided into tribal fiefdoms ruled by the ancient gods. Each of the rulers has carved out their territory and the world they rule has devolved into one of constant warfare between these provinces. In an effort to stem this warfare several regions created The Academy to train police force that will end the bloodshed.

By Patti Davis

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After a frightening incident in Los Angeles, Joshua and his family move from there, to a small, quaint town called Clearoak, where the folk aren’t “unfriendly” but just “protective”. Here, Joshua hears rumors and stories about the old house in which he now lives – a house that is supposedly haunted.

By John Abramowitz

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Hunter Gamble, formerly a lawyer for the arcanes is now working in his father’s firm, consumed with guilt for the death of his partner and friend, Kirsten Harper. When an old friend is accused of a murder with magical coercion as his only defense, Hunter can’t resist taking the case.

By John Abramowitz

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Hunter Gamble, formerly a lawyer for the arcanes is now working in his father’s firm, consumed with guilt for the death of his partner and friend, Kirsten Harper. When an old friend is accused of a murder with magical coercion as his only defense, Hunter can’t resist taking the case.

By Larry Buhl

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THE GENIUS OF LITTLE THINGS is a moving yet humorous story of a lovable, emotionally stunted, 16 year-old, science geek caught in the Foster-Go-Round system AKA Nevada Department of Child and Family Services.

By Jeff Conine

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John Caine isn’t your typical psych case; everyone can tell that when he arrives at the low-rent, high-cost halfway house called Juniper Manor. What kind of case he is, no one seems to be able to quite put their finger on: not his fellow inmates, not the sleazy manager of Juniper Manor, and not his disillusioned shrink.

By Grace Mattioli

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The Greco clan, a collection of dysfunctional but brilliant underachievers who haven’t all been together since the marriage of eldest daughter, six years ago because they all end up brawling. Then protagonist, Sylvia Greco attempts to reconcile her family by organizing a reunion.

By JACKIE MINNITI

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English teacher, Jenna Bianchi starts her new term with a new unruly student. As Jenna lays out a plan (that she names Project June Bug) to help Michael, she must battle administrative issues, differing peer opinions and a parent who is bent on destroying her teaching career.

By Janice M. Van Dyck

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Mike Costello is dying of cancer. His “last request”- a gathering of friends and enemies from high school. They all know that it will somehow be about the murder of Maria’s popular brother during their senior year.

By d.f. waitt

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As the narrator of LEAVING EARLY counts down the days to his suicide, he contemplates his life so far while offering some poignant and facetious observations of life in this richly dark and humorous narrative.

By Giacomo Giammatteo

By David Greene

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UNMENTIONABLES is a story concerning the interaction of slavery, family, love and war, when two Southern families, and the slaves they own, but do not fully control, find themselves forced to confront traumatic change in the face of the Civil War.

By Bonnie McKernan

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Mae Kendrick, born in Ireland, has lived with her aunt and uncle in New York since her infancy, and has grown into an accomplished painter and a lovely woman. Her relatives are concerned, however, by her lack of potential husbands after a failed engagement.

By Curtis Edmonds

By Tilia Klebenov Jacobs

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Tsara Adelman hasn’t spoken to her uncle, Castle Thornlocke, in twenty years. But when he invites her to a benefit for a cancer charity founded in her mother’s name, her affectionate husband David, her brother Court and her rabbi and close friend Adara persuade her to put the past aside and attend.

By Michael L. Watson

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Our story begins around the typical campfire of fantasy novels everywhere, with most of the party asleep (or nearly so) except for the bard and the heroine, who are discussing the epic he is writing about her.

By Kevin McCormick

By Cari Kamm

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Kamm draws the reader into Chloe’s spinning world, keeping us guessing as to whether the epistolary lovers will ever make their relationship real. Though the lovers’ texts and emails get tedious at times, readers will be captivated by Chloe’s journey into her own heart.

By Ron L. Winter

By Elizabeth Hunter

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When Kate Mitchell decided to research the mysterious portrait in the student gallery, she had no idea how her life would change. She thought she knew what she wanted in life. She had a great boyfriend, a promising career, and a clear path.

By Stephanie Stamm

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Lucinda “Lucky” Monroe has just had to put her grandmother — the woman who raised her after her mother died giving birth — in an assisted care facility because the older woman’s Alzheimer’s has made looking after her too difficult.

By Taylor Evan Fulkes

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The harrowing tale of a young girl brutally raped and abused by her stepfather, and her efforts to find a normal life as she gets older, despite repeated encounters with sexual violence, rape and abuse at the hands of boyfriends.

By Amy Harmon

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Blue Echohawk doesn’t know who she is. She doesn’t know her real name or when she was born. Abandoned at two and raised by a drifter, she didn’t attend school until she was ten years old. At nineteen, when most kids her age are attending college or moving on with life, she is just a senior in high school.

By Jeanette Battista

By Nicole Williams

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Rowan Sterling is bitter, hurt, and angry with life, having spent her eighteen years neglected by a mother who treats her daughter with scorn, when not ignoring her completely in favor of a series of boyfriends.

By Freddie Owens Wegela

By Jennifer Richardson

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Americashire is the story of an American woman married to a British man, who is persuaded to move to her husband’s country and finally ends up settling in a peaceful (but eccentrically British) village in the Cotswolds.

By Catherine Stine

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In the year 2089, global warming has split the world into three sections – the Arctic-area Ocean Dominion, the Land Dominion just to the south, and the dangerous, only somewhat habitable Hotzone, where going outside without a special suit leaves you burned beyond recognition.

A marvelous young adult mystery, with a lively plot and an appealing cast of characters. | IR Staff

By Elaine Russell

By Don M. Winn

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The Knighting of Sir Kaye is the charming beginning to a children’s series featuring boy knight Sir Kaye and his trusty squire, Reggie Stork (the narrator), in a kingdom that has fallen on difficult times since the death of its former king, a good and wise man.

By R.S. Vern

By Marc A. DiGiacomo

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IN A SMALL TOWN effectively reveals the grittiness of police life, conveying a special ability to separate the experiences on the job with personal emotions for the most part, that allows the policemen to do their job without falling apart.

By Russell Scott

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Jarvis Sloan is President of LifeSolutions, devoted to improving family life and sexual relations. Following the advice of a colleague and his extra-marital affair partner; he creates TimeDonors, a spin-off company that aims to more directly help failing marriages by using a new kind of server that leaves no electronic trail and all sexual hook ups between people stay anonymous.

By Dr. Richard A Oppenlander

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Comfortably Unaware maintains that our food choices are depleting our planet’s resources because “the major cause of biodiversity loss on our planet is from the livestock we raise for food and from overfishing of our oceans,” and calls for the consumer to be aware of the brainwashing by the media and become more educated on how to make choices that will save our planet.

By Ethan Evers

By Henry Mosquera

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In this suspenseful, tightly written thriller, protagonist Eric Caine, an ex-Air Force Special Operations Command pararescuer is on the run, trying to find out who set him up to be the fall guy in an international assassination plot.

By Lee Fullbright

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Frances Grayson never quite gets over been raised by the overbearing, obsessive and disturbed women in his family. His demons raise their ugly heads, especially with his stepdaughter Elyse who tries desperately to maintain a sense of ‘normalcy’ for herself and her young sister Bean.

By Ray Flynt

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This fast-paced mystery begins with a missing person—Jeremy Young, a runaway from Maple Grove, an institution for juveniles who’ve run afoul of the law. Jeremy’s brother, Derek, sees him in a porn film and contacts detective Brad Frame and his side-kick, former probation officer Sharon Porter, for help in locating him.

By Edite Vidins

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Edite Vidins, a woman of Latvian heritage raised in Australia, begins this compelling memoir with the disclosure that the love of her young life, a man named Warwick, has died of hypothermia after wandering out of a bar and into a blizzard.

By Paul Clayton

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A group of settlers from England, organized by Sir Walter Raleigh, are charged with landing in the Chesapeake Bay area to establish a colony. A previous expedition in Roanoke ended badly after soldiers beheaded an Indian chief, accusing him of stealing an axe. But the subsequent trip goes awry when the pilot becomes more interested in chasing the Spanish bullion on their ships than completing his mission.

By Tammara Webber

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Jackie has made the unfortunate decision of following her high school boyfriend, Kennedy to the state school he chose, rather than follow her talents to the first rate music university programs she could have gotten into. Thinking that their love would last—or at least continue on campus, Jackie is blindsided when she is promptly dumped by Kennedy and left in a place that she isn’t sure she should even be.

By T.A. Corbi

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This little book opens with Charlie Chan sitting on a bench talking to his friend Tom Swifty, who decides to make a list of the pearls of wisdom inspired by Chan’s life and experience as a famous detective. And so begins a list of Tom Swiftys, which the author quotes Wikipedia defining as: “a phrase in which a quoted sentence is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed.”

By Charles H. Hood

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The tale of how ADDvantage Media Group, Inc, (AMG) a vendor of shopping cart calculators, partnered with Wal-Mart and were systematically destroyed by the corporate mega-store through continual mishandlings, turnovers in high level associates who were working on the accounts and an overall attitude of greed and deception.

By Richard Best

Ace’s troubles start when her beach trip falls through. Before she knows what’s happening, the sarcastic protagonist of “Diary of a Mad Fat Girl” finds one friend ensnared in a sex scandal and another friend has them spying on her dirt-bag husband.

By Carleton Varney

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Like Martha Stewart, Dorothy Draper was a preacher and teacher whose how-to books and Good Housekeeping columns provided middle-class housewives with affordable ideas for making their homes more functional and comfortable.

By Drew Banks

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Able Was I begins by introducing us to Grey Tigrett, an American college student tooling around Italy for a summer before graduation. On the island of Elba (yes, Napoleon’s Elba) Grey, who came to the island with a longtime girlfriend, has a brief but significant amorous encounter with an Italian man named Antonio.

By The Gagosian Gallery

By Dave Eggers

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Eggers’s riveting nonfiction book, three years in the making, explores the protagonist’s roots in Syria, his marriage to Kathy–an American who converted to Islam–and their children, and the surreal atmosphere (in New Orleans and the United States generally) in which what happened to Abdulrahman Zeitoun was possible.

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